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Nevermind, she is going to be racing in UCI Champions League and she will retire after the league is finished.

Wow, nice effort from Strolia. Really had a chance for a historic podium here if he shot 20/20. If he doesn't lose too much places in the final lap, this is going to be a PB for him.

Fomin is having a senior race of his life right now in the IBU cup

Gabrielė Leščinskaitė giving a lot of hopes with her pre-season racing, having a tendency to get faster and faster as the race goes on, gives me false hope that we're winning World Cup points today. Because that 4th and 5th lap was absolutely abyssmal and made a possible good performance absolutely average, and not helping much for her Olympic qualification.

I think it's picking up on the final trimester of 2019-20 season, including the IBU European Championships. It's probably picking up the World Champs from that season as well, only way I can explain Kočergina having such a good position.

This list also takes into account an additional trimester that's no longer eligible. Kaisa Makarainen is still in the list and she didn't start anywhere last year. Therefore, a lot of the numbers right now are wrong here, regarding qualification. Kočergina, for example, is only 9th right now in the actual list if I'm not mistaken, and Leščinskaitė got up to 10th place after a successful start in yesterday's sprint.

It would've been even worse, if @Olympian1010 hadn't joined the jury

Even though the stats display Denmark ---> Lithuania as a one-sided affair, Denmark is actually the 7th country that I awarded most points to and voted in 10/17 contests. Which means that most countries that vote a lot for Lithuania could be seen as a one-sided affair, because my points are pretty much all over the place if we disregard the fact that I'm a simp for US, GB and Brazil.

Yeah, it could be seen that Leščinskaitė is looking better from pre-season races. 25th place with 2 misses and 33rd course time overall, this feels finally like a year where she is capable to fight for World Cup points yet again.

Natalija Kočergina and Gabrielė Leščinskaitė starting in the IBU cup tomorrow, to better their chances of qualifying into the Olympics. The men's team pretty much what was expected, but Fomin isn't in it.

Funnily enough, I knew the Canadian song from a Canadian reality tv show parody cartoon I have a special place in my heart for this show.

Lithuania Simona Krupeckaitė has announced that she will retire in UCI Champions League event on November 27th in Panevėžys, Lithuania. Simona is a five time Olympian (shared record with Virgilijus Alekna and Daina Gudzinevičiūtė), 2 time World Champion, 3 time European Champion, she still holds two World Records and she has countless silver and bronze medals from all major championships, yet only the olympic medal has eluded her. She is very well known in the cycling-track world and Lithuania probably will never have a cyclist that accomplished as Krupeckaitė was. Sad to see her go, but as people say, don't be sad that it's over, be happy that it happened and she has awarded so many wonderful sport memories from my childhood to adulthood. Will always be one of the greats.

It's absolutely crazy to think that we've been doing this for 9 years already. @OlympicIRL did you believe that you would build such a huge legacy for a music contest on a sports forum nonetheless?

Omg, thanks so much @Bohemia, glad that you liked the song Although Lithuania didn't get any twelve points this edition, this still means a lot.

Another good example is Justin Bieber hitting #1 on Billboard with "Yummy" when nobody liked that awful song.

I really shouldn't need to explain this. More famous doesn't equal better, yes, they may be more critically acclaimed, but that does not mean that their music is better only because they have more views on Youtube. Also, in the modern age of this industry, we tend to imagine that we as people are responsible for who gets famous, but there are so many games behind the scenes that nobody becomes famous without a reason, especially when we're talking mainstream fame. And no, I'm not only talking about the games that labels play - buying spots on the radio, having a different platform where they can pitch music to Spotify, millions upon millions of dollars in marketing, venue placement and all that good shit, I'm also talking about Spotify and Youtube algorhythms that work for people who are already ahead, not for emerging artists, and especially not for artists that are not coming from a country that's a major player in the music soundscape. Basically, more and more nowadays you're listening to what's put in front of you, and rarely do you look for ways to seek out music on your own, this was made apparent by Spotify and how people consume music through playlists and are not even listening to full albums most of the time. Artists like Avicii don't come out of nowhere, artists nowadays are massively produced and the labels paint a pretty picture to make you think they're hot and up and coming, but everything is planned out years in advance. You could see that by looking at credits and seeing what songwriters wrote songs for who and then went on to become famous artists themselves after years of grind in the industry making connections, oooor another good example would be a huge super star Taylor Swift having a huge tour and who is warming up the stage for her? Shawn Mendes, Troye Sivan, Fifth Harmony that were put there by their labels and are now all huge artists. Lenny never had the chance to become more famous than Avicii, does that mean that she should automatically lose to him? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Bruh, Sweden has won before. It would be unfair if Sweden won just for sending Avicii. This is not a name recognision contest, it's a song contest. Third place is huge, learn to be happy for others and by saying this you're also disregarding everyone that voted for your song and there were many many gold medals as well.

All in all, an 11th place for a humble Lithuanian rock song is very much appreciated and a pretty solid result. If we take out the English songs out of the equation, it was one of the best non-English songs this year and I can only be proud that the language from my small country can still be recognised and is appreciated from countries in all continents. Thanks again for everyone that voted for Lithuania, looking forward to the next contest and you might see someone familiar coming back

The amount of times that I begged various Czech users to get back into this competition, I somewhat feel a part of this success

Huge congratulations as well to @Wanderer that's been participating for so many years. I could think of many more songs from previous contests that would deserve a second place in TISC for NZ, but I'm glad that it at least happened to you today. Much deserved, buddy

Oh wow, so my favourite entry that got 12 points from Lithuania actually won TISC? That rarely happens Huge congratulations to @Hipooo would be lovely to see you host, especially since we're in times where the winning nations rarely rise to the occasion.

The middle of the table is insane as well. One 12 points can get you up like 10 places or more.

Throughout the show, it really felt like Lithuania either got 7-11 points or none at all, I guess this is what I get for sending light rock vibes

Omg, what a nice save from Sweden there! Thanks a lot for the 8 points @Belle

Either I completely forgot something about history, or you're mixing me up with Slovakia, that's been sharing flags the entire night with all European countries.